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I apologize if this site is not for this kind of questions, but this is really puzzling and I have no idea what is happening.

I have 2 minecraft clients, tlauncher and Shiginima launcher. There is a server that I usually play, and I can enter it normally with Shiginima. However if I try to connect with tlauncher it says: Unknown host and doesn't connect. I can connect to other servers with tlauncher, just not that one. Furthermore I can ping those others that I can connect to. However if I try to ping the one that doesn't work, it says: ping: <host_name_of_server>: No address associated with hostname.

I have no idea what is happening, and can't find anything about how to solve it or why it happens on the internet..

(I am using linux btw)

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    Those error messages point to a DNS problem. Have you used a DNS tool such as dig or host or nslookup to see what responses your DNS servers are giving for the host/domain names for the two Minecraft servers in question? If I had to guess, I'd say the problematic server is only reachable via IPv6, and I'd guess that tlauncher doesn't support IPv6, but Shiginima does. On many Unix-like systems (possibly including your particular flavor of Linux), ping doesn't support IPv6 either; you must use ping6 to ping hosts via IPv6.
    – Spiff
    Oct 7, 2019 at 21:20
  • @Spiff I am using arch-linux. Both ping and ping -6 returned No address associated with hostname. Then I did ping -4 and it worked. However when I tried ping -4 again, it also returned No address associated with hostname , and doesn't work anymore.. I was able sometimes to enter the server with tlauncher before too.
    – Cora_
    Oct 8, 2019 at 7:28
  • And now I used another internet, and even shiginima launcher doesn't work (same message)...
    – Cora_
    Oct 10, 2019 at 19:46
  • I think you're having DNS problems. If you don't know how to diagnose them yourself using tools like dig, nslookup, or host, then consider editing your Question to provide the host/domain names of the two servers you're trying to connect to, so that someone else can do the DNS troubleshooting.
    – Spiff
    Oct 10, 2019 at 19:53

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